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    Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE (née Garrett; 11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English political activist and writer. She campaigned for women's...
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    statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, honours the British suffragist leader and social campaigner Dame Millicent Fawcett. It was made...
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    was for a sculpture of a woman in Parliament Square; the statue of Millicent Fawcett was unveiled in April 2018, as part of the centenary celebrations...
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    including Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett and Hicham El Guerrouj. The Millicent Fawcett Mile, a women's race, was first held in the 2018 Anniversary Games...
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  • The Millicent Fawcett Mile is an annual one mile running race for women, inaugurated in 2018 at the Müller Anniversary Games held in London in July 2018...
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    Fawcett Society is a membership charity in the United Kingdom which campaigns for women's rights. The organisation dates back to 1866, when Millicent...
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    a commission. The Fawcett Commission, as it became known was, uniquely for its time, an all-woman affair headed by Millicent Fawcett who despite being...
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    Union of Women's Suffrage Societies who had campaigned for the vote, Millicent Fawcett, was still alive and attended the parliament session to see the vote...
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    Library at the London School of Economics. Strachey worked closely with Millicent Fawcett, sharing her Liberal feminist values and opposing any attempt to integrate...
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    extremely rare. In 1867, Fawcett married Elizabeth's younger sister Millicent Garrett. They had one child, Philippa Fawcett. Henry Fawcett's career was cut short...
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    originally split in 1888. The groups united under the leadership of Millicent Fawcett, who was the president of the society for more than twenty years....
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    National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) was founded by Millicent Fawcett. This society linked smaller groups together and also put pressure...
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  • Millicent Browne (1881-1975), British suffragate Millicent Dillon (born 1925), American writer Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929), English suffragist, feminist,...
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    Philippa Garrett Fawcett was born on 4 April 1868, the daughter of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett (née Garrett) and Henry Fawcett MP, Professor of Political...
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    and sister, Christabel as well as Annie Kenney, Charlotte Despard, Millicent Fawcett and Lady Lytton. The trees were known as "Annie's Arboreatum" after...
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    commission was set up and a team of official investigators headed by Millicent Fawcett was sent to inspect the camps. Overcrowding in bad unhygienic conditions...
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    McCrory speaking at the unveiling of a statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London in 2018...
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    other women's suffrage supporters) are on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in April 2018. She was featured...
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  • arrived at the Albert Hall, Rhys presented a bouquet of irises to Millicent Fawcett, a prominent campaigner for women's suffrage in England and leader...
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    Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE (1847-1929): leader of the suffragette movement and writer (wife of Henry Fawcett MP). Philippa Garrett Fawcett (1868-1948):...
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    the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett, popularly known as "Hanging out the washing", stands in London's...
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    decision, some of the group's leaders, including Lydia Becker and Millicent Fawcett, stormed out of the meeting and created an alternative organisation...
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    (WHC) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Her aunt, Dame Millicent Fawcett, was a British suffragist. Her partner was fellow doctor and suffragette...
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    Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), whose President was Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and served in this capacity from its inception until some women...
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    women's suffrage supporters are etched on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London that was unveiled in 2018. In 1903, the...
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    other women's suffrage supporters) are on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in 2018. List of suffragists...
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    other women's suffrage supporters) are on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in 2018. Brian Harrison, 'Lawrence...
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    other women's suffrage supporters, are on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in April 2018. Born in Munich...
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    women's suffrage supporters) are etched on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, that was unveiled in 2018. In 2006,...
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  • American soccer player Michael Fawcett (born 1962), British courtier Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929), British feminist Nicole Fawcett (born 1986), American volleyball...
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